Egypt's Revolutionary Guards • A Prayer for the Molad of the Month of Nissan

Tomorrow, Thursday night, the 30th of Shevat, the first night of Rosh Chodesh Adar, at 16:13 and 13 chalakim (parts of a minute), the molad (new moon) of the month of Adar 5785 will occur. Below is a prayer written by the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a for the molad of the month of Nissan 5786:
The molad of the month of Nissan will be on Wednesday at 4:13 and 13 chalakim.
Rosh Chodesh Nissan will be on Thursday.
Master of the Universe, the Almighty, at the hour of the molad of Nissan, all the gates of wisdom are opened, the fifty gates of Binah (Understanding), the thirty-two paths of wisdom. All the Ten Plagues are renewed, along with all the miracles of the Exodus from Egypt, and the seven Clouds of Glory, from 'Blood' until the 'Plague of the Firstborn'.
And the verse is fulfilled, "To Him Who struck Egypt through their firstborn," for the firstborn struck Pharaoh's army with double the force of the Plague of the Firstborn. Almost every woman had eighty firstborn children who died, "and there was no house where there was not someone dead." There was a great outcry throughout the entire land of Egypt, until all the Egyptians rose up to send them away by force and compulsion.
For Pharaoh asked Moshe: Why didn't you flee during the seven days of darkness? For three days "no man saw his brother," and for three days they could not move from their place, so you had plenty of time to escape! Moshe Rabbeinu answered him: We are not thieves, nor robbers, nor gangsters, nor criminals who need to flee in hiding. We will leave "on this very day," in broad daylight, "before the eyes of all of Egypt," and you yourself will send us to freedom, and furthermore, you will end up drowning in the Yam Suf (Red Sea). And all of this happened in the month of Nissan.
And the miracles begin on Rosh Chodesh, at the molad, for then all the gates of Heaven and all the gates of miracles are opened. And just as it was in those days, so it will be in this time, in the year 5786, which shares the gematria (numerical value) of "Hashem is One" (1), "Shechinah (Divine Presence)" (385), and "Eliyahu HaNavi, remembered for good" (40 - 786, 5786 - 788).
And as the Beis Yosef brings down in section 430 of the Laws of Pesach, all the firstborns of Egypt went to their fathers, demanding that they go to Pharaoh and tell him: "Just as all of Moshe's words have been fulfilled, word for word, letter for letter, and we have already received all nine plagues from the 15th of Nissan to the 15th of Nissan, now we are all about to die just for your prestige (honor), because you refused to send the Jews away despite all the terrible plagues!" Then Pharaoh sent all his armies and all the revolutionary guards to strike the firstborns, and double the amount of people were killed than in the actual Plague of the Firstborn.
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